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University of Southern California Volume LXXV, No. 53 Tuesday, December 12, 1978
Faculty Senate sets principles to help president search group
By Carole Long
Staff Writer
The Faculty Senate has developed a set of principles to guide the formation and operation of the next presidential search group.
The principles were released at a campus press conference Monday (a precedent at the university) by John LeBlanc, president of the Faculty Senate and will be presented to the full Faculty Senate and Council of Deans Wednesday for final approval.
Suzanne Nora, Student Senate chairman, said the Student Senate could not meet until Jan. 5. The Executive committee of the Student Senate, however, has approved the principles, finding them “appropriate and fitting."
The staff caucus, chaired by Jeanne Rathbun, will meet Thursday’ to examine the principles. Rathbun said the caucus will most likely approve them.
The 10 principles for the presidential search process are listed in an adjoining article.
The Faculty Senate committee and executive board began developing principles in response to a charge by George T. Scharffenberger, chairman of the academic planning committee of the Board of Trustees.
"We were instructed to do this," LeBlanc said.
"If the planning committee asked for us to do this, we must then act in an organized
OT photo by Doug Gray
RAGGEDY ANN — A gift for a friend or a reminder of childhood, a university student finds a familiar item among the many crafts for sale trough Friday._
SHOWS $2 MILLION GAP
Preliminary budget predicts deficit
A university committee is reviewing the first pro-forma operating budget for 1979-80 which shows a deficit of $2,122,630.
The resource management and planning committee of the President's Advisory Council began consideration of the proposed budget at a meeting Dec. 7.
The committee will make recommendations to President John. R. Hubbard when the study of the budget is complete.
The deficit represents the difference between projected revenues of $139,013,003 and
projected expenditures of $141,135,633.
In an overview attached to the budget proposal, the deficit is described as an "unfavorable gap between revenues and expenditures which remains to be resolved."
However, the letter also describes the budget as the "Administration's best
assessment of the operating budget for 1979-80."
According to expected increases of inflation, a tuition increase near the 10% level will be warranted, said the overview statement.
School asks music majors to lobby for practice facility
Music majors were urged to lobby for funds to build a new practice facility at a School of Music information session Monday, although no decision was reached on the placement of temporary practice rooms.
Students were assured by School of Music administrators that funding would be found by next fall. But no provisions have been made , for the summer after the practice rooms are torn down. (The Seeley G. Mudd building, an 11-story structure housing the psychology and chemistry departments, will be built in Parking Lot K, the site of the practice barracks.)
Grant Beglarian, dean of performing arts, told an audience of at least 300 students and faculty that the students themselves may be more effective than the School of Music administrators in convincing the Board of Trustees to donate money.
Apparently it is a case of people going to the well once too often. Howard Rarig, director of the School of Music, explained, "I have gone so manv times to the university administration that the wererepetition tends to lessen, to lose a sense of urgency".
Student input to members of the Board of Trustees would be far more effective, more persuasive, because "this is an issue that hits students where they live," Rarig said.
Part of the difficulty in convincing the Board of Trustees and other potential donors of the problem in the unglamorous nature of the practice room.
"Practice rooms aren't very sexy," Beglarian said. "I can find people to give money for a theater but not for what 1 call the factory."
Beglarian and others felt it would be helpful to create a situation that would be conducive to action."
(continued on page 12 )
But current federal wage and price standards limit the university's tuition increases to 8.5%.
However, the confines of the 8.5% level may be removed after Dec. 15. Expanded wage and price standards will be issued after that date that may allow a tuition increase above the current level.
Should new standards be issued, they will be reflected in a second proposed budget, along with increases in student aid.
This would reduce the deficit by bringing tuition levels closer to what is required to meet the expected inflation levels.
The letter says the possibility of other budgetary factors lessening the deficit is "dim."
"Enrollment of 1978-79 isat the budgeted level best (and) additional increments are not forseen for the next year," the statement said.
Efforts to increase unrestricted endowment and gifts are "too preliminary to judge."
"A large increase in the recovery of indirect costs...in 1979-80 is not anticipated."
(Indirect cost recovery funds are collected by the university from the government in payment for administrative, maintenance, and other costs incurred in research projects here.)
"Further gains from the investment of current funds stemming from record-high interest rates will be short-lived if these rates decline as (President Carter's) anti-inflation program achieves it's objectives.
"In short, the prospects for additional revenue beyond the level projected in the pro-forma budget are dim unless changes are forthcoming in the federal standards or their
(continued on page 2)
fashion," said James McBath, former Faculty Senate president and vice-chairman of the President's Advisory Council.
The leadership of the various university constituencies (i.e. deans, staff, faculty and students) gave input during the drafting process.
The Faculty Senate committee and executive board accumulated literature and studied information on how other institutions have conducted their presidential
where they didn't have a highly-sophisticated structure with the President's Advisors' Council and the Student and Faculty Senates," he said.
McBath feels this move, to include all constituencies, is a definite step in the right direction.
An examination of the presidential selection process of the past 25 years shows there has gradually been involvement of more groups at the university, McBath said.
Guide for replacement issued
Principles for the presidential search process:
Final selection of the president is the responsibility of the full Board of Trustees.
It is recommended that the Board of Trustees announce the search-and-selection procedures which will be followed at the same meeting that it formally acts upon the presidential retirement.
The search process should be conducted by a single committee whose membership is composed largely of trustees and faculty.
In addition to trustee and faculty membership, the search committee should include members of other university constituencies (e.g. deans, students, alumni, staff).
Faculty representatives will be nominated by the Executive Board of the Faculty' Senate. Criteria for faculty nominees should be the following:
A.- Members should enjoy deep respect among their faculty colleagues and be recognized for their understanding and insight.
(continued on page 2)
selection.
"We feel we have come up with a forthright, clear, representative process that can be useful to other universities," LeBlanc said.
McBath said the document mirrors the governance process at the university.
"This wouldn't work at a place
"Back when Fred. T. Fagg was chosen for the presidency (in 1947) it was a decision solely made by the Board of Trustees meeting, interviewing and selecting the president privately.
"Now the trustees have in mind an optimum search process
(continued on page 2)
STRUCTURE OPENS
OT photo by JuHt Vertch
TEMPORARY PARKING — Parking Structure B at the comer of 36th Street and McClintock Avenue was reopened for overflow parking Monday. The first four floors were open despite continued construction on the facility. The structure will be open permanently after Christmas vacation.

trojan
C_j
University of Southern California Volume LXXV, No. 53 Tuesday, December 12, 1978
Faculty Senate sets principles to help president search group
By Carole Long
Staff Writer
The Faculty Senate has developed a set of principles to guide the formation and operation of the next presidential search group.
The principles were released at a campus press conference Monday (a precedent at the university) by John LeBlanc, president of the Faculty Senate and will be presented to the full Faculty Senate and Council of Deans Wednesday for final approval.
Suzanne Nora, Student Senate chairman, said the Student Senate could not meet until Jan. 5. The Executive committee of the Student Senate, however, has approved the principles, finding them “appropriate and fitting."
The staff caucus, chaired by Jeanne Rathbun, will meet Thursday’ to examine the principles. Rathbun said the caucus will most likely approve them.
The 10 principles for the presidential search process are listed in an adjoining article.
The Faculty Senate committee and executive board began developing principles in response to a charge by George T. Scharffenberger, chairman of the academic planning committee of the Board of Trustees.
"We were instructed to do this," LeBlanc said.
"If the planning committee asked for us to do this, we must then act in an organized
OT photo by Doug Gray
RAGGEDY ANN — A gift for a friend or a reminder of childhood, a university student finds a familiar item among the many crafts for sale trough Friday._
SHOWS $2 MILLION GAP
Preliminary budget predicts deficit
A university committee is reviewing the first pro-forma operating budget for 1979-80 which shows a deficit of $2,122,630.
The resource management and planning committee of the President's Advisory Council began consideration of the proposed budget at a meeting Dec. 7.
The committee will make recommendations to President John. R. Hubbard when the study of the budget is complete.
The deficit represents the difference between projected revenues of $139,013,003 and
projected expenditures of $141,135,633.
In an overview attached to the budget proposal, the deficit is described as an "unfavorable gap between revenues and expenditures which remains to be resolved."
However, the letter also describes the budget as the "Administration's best
assessment of the operating budget for 1979-80."
According to expected increases of inflation, a tuition increase near the 10% level will be warranted, said the overview statement.
School asks music majors to lobby for practice facility
Music majors were urged to lobby for funds to build a new practice facility at a School of Music information session Monday, although no decision was reached on the placement of temporary practice rooms.
Students were assured by School of Music administrators that funding would be found by next fall. But no provisions have been made , for the summer after the practice rooms are torn down. (The Seeley G. Mudd building, an 11-story structure housing the psychology and chemistry departments, will be built in Parking Lot K, the site of the practice barracks.)
Grant Beglarian, dean of performing arts, told an audience of at least 300 students and faculty that the students themselves may be more effective than the School of Music administrators in convincing the Board of Trustees to donate money.
Apparently it is a case of people going to the well once too often. Howard Rarig, director of the School of Music, explained, "I have gone so manv times to the university administration that the wererepetition tends to lessen, to lose a sense of urgency".
Student input to members of the Board of Trustees would be far more effective, more persuasive, because "this is an issue that hits students where they live," Rarig said.
Part of the difficulty in convincing the Board of Trustees and other potential donors of the problem in the unglamorous nature of the practice room.
"Practice rooms aren't very sexy," Beglarian said. "I can find people to give money for a theater but not for what 1 call the factory."
Beglarian and others felt it would be helpful to create a situation that would be conducive to action."
(continued on page 12 )
But current federal wage and price standards limit the university's tuition increases to 8.5%.
However, the confines of the 8.5% level may be removed after Dec. 15. Expanded wage and price standards will be issued after that date that may allow a tuition increase above the current level.
Should new standards be issued, they will be reflected in a second proposed budget, along with increases in student aid.
This would reduce the deficit by bringing tuition levels closer to what is required to meet the expected inflation levels.
The letter says the possibility of other budgetary factors lessening the deficit is "dim."
"Enrollment of 1978-79 isat the budgeted level best (and) additional increments are not forseen for the next year," the statement said.
Efforts to increase unrestricted endowment and gifts are "too preliminary to judge."
"A large increase in the recovery of indirect costs...in 1979-80 is not anticipated."
(Indirect cost recovery funds are collected by the university from the government in payment for administrative, maintenance, and other costs incurred in research projects here.)
"Further gains from the investment of current funds stemming from record-high interest rates will be short-lived if these rates decline as (President Carter's) anti-inflation program achieves it's objectives.
"In short, the prospects for additional revenue beyond the level projected in the pro-forma budget are dim unless changes are forthcoming in the federal standards or their
(continued on page 2)
fashion," said James McBath, former Faculty Senate president and vice-chairman of the President's Advisory Council.
The leadership of the various university constituencies (i.e. deans, staff, faculty and students) gave input during the drafting process.
The Faculty Senate committee and executive board accumulated literature and studied information on how other institutions have conducted their presidential
where they didn't have a highly-sophisticated structure with the President's Advisors' Council and the Student and Faculty Senates," he said.
McBath feels this move, to include all constituencies, is a definite step in the right direction.
An examination of the presidential selection process of the past 25 years shows there has gradually been involvement of more groups at the university, McBath said.
Guide for replacement issued
Principles for the presidential search process:
Final selection of the president is the responsibility of the full Board of Trustees.
It is recommended that the Board of Trustees announce the search-and-selection procedures which will be followed at the same meeting that it formally acts upon the presidential retirement.
The search process should be conducted by a single committee whose membership is composed largely of trustees and faculty.
In addition to trustee and faculty membership, the search committee should include members of other university constituencies (e.g. deans, students, alumni, staff).
Faculty representatives will be nominated by the Executive Board of the Faculty' Senate. Criteria for faculty nominees should be the following:
A.- Members should enjoy deep respect among their faculty colleagues and be recognized for their understanding and insight.
(continued on page 2)
selection.
"We feel we have come up with a forthright, clear, representative process that can be useful to other universities," LeBlanc said.
McBath said the document mirrors the governance process at the university.
"This wouldn't work at a place
"Back when Fred. T. Fagg was chosen for the presidency (in 1947) it was a decision solely made by the Board of Trustees meeting, interviewing and selecting the president privately.
"Now the trustees have in mind an optimum search process
(continued on page 2)
STRUCTURE OPENS
OT photo by JuHt Vertch
TEMPORARY PARKING — Parking Structure B at the comer of 36th Street and McClintock Avenue was reopened for overflow parking Monday. The first four floors were open despite continued construction on the facility. The structure will be open permanently after Christmas vacation.